Then everything happened very quickly. Endorsed by Minister Robert Badinter, he became, in his turn, the director of Judicial Services for four years. This was followed by his appointment as Attorney General of Bordeaux, then of Paris. To illustrate his “second life,” as Claude Jorda puts it, a position as a judge at the International Criminal Tribunal, newly established by the UN, was entrusted to him during the Balkan wars. He then assumed the role of president. During the conflict in Rwanda, he was appointed the first French judge of the International Criminal Court.
Imaginary
His return to Bordeaux, for personal reasons, led the former magistrate to his “third life”: writing. “Tired of writing reports, preparing speeches, drafting official texts… I preferred to let myself be carried away by the imaginary,” he says. This is how his first novel was born about ten years ago, followed by a second shortly after.
In his latest work “God Had Eventually Taken Care of It”, Claude Jorda invites the reader to immerse themselves in a chance encounter between a woman and a man who are complete opposites. On the way to Compostela, each pushes their personal burdens in a wheelbarrow. “Life being made of chances, I wanted to materialize this notion through writing.”
